Omaha Teen Soccer Player Shot in Mouth, Gunfiire Reported at Two Schools

Omaha Teen Soccer Player Shot in Mouth, Gunfiire Reported at Two Schools

This is a discussion on Omaha Teen Soccer Player Shot in Mouth, Gunfiire Reported at Two Schools within the In the News: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly forums, part of the The Back Porch category; OMAHA, Neb. — An eighth-grade soccer player was shot and wounded during a game at a middle school Thursday, around the same time that gunfire ...

Omaha Teen Soccer Player Shot in Mouth, Gunfiire Reported at Two Schools

OMAHA, Neb. — An eighth-grade soccer player was shot and wounded during a game at a middle school Thursday, around the same time that gunfire was reported at an elementary school about a mile away.

Authorities did not know whether the shootings were related but were searching for a suspect in the soccer player's shooting, said Omaha police spokeswoman Darci Tierney. Several people were detained in the elementary school shooting, but no arrests were made.

King Science and Technology Magnet School was briefly locked down after the player was shot. No arrests had been made, Tierney said, and it was not immediately clear where the shots came from or how many were fired.

No one was believed to be injured at the elementary school.

About 100 kids were in and around the middle school about 3:30 p.m. when witnesses saw the boy — a soccer player on the sidelines — bleeding from his face. He had been shot in the mouth and was taken to Creighton University Medical Center; police identified him as 14-year-old Taylor Borgeson.

Tierney said the teen's injuries suggest he was struck by a discharged round that was falling.

Children were kept in the school as police questioned them. Dozens of parents picked up their children after the lockdown was lifted.

"It's kind of a hectic scene," Tierney said.

Steven Bryant, parent of a fifth-grader who attends the school, was on his way home from a job site when he saw a fire truck, ambulance and police cars around the school and "thought the worst."

In December, police responded to a shooting spree at an Omaha shopping mall. Eight people were fatally shot and three wounded before 19-year-old gunman Robert Hawkins took his own life.

Luanne Nelson, spokeswoman for the Omaha Public School District, said counselors will be available to students Friday.

Parents in the city's largest district were already on edge after threats this week at Westside High School. Officials there said that written threats were found in a school bathroom and that the windows had been shot out of more than a dozen students' cars.

Parents of about 200 students kept their children home from school Wednesday.

One would think that the idea of gun-free zones and people getting shot (or hurt from falling bullets) would begin to 'compute' as being somewhat related...DUH?

Would this have been prevented if everyone at the school had been armed? As I read it he was hit by a bullet falling from the sky. Did it say who fired the bullet or from how far away. I know of people that have been killed from bullets fired from over a mile away and there it doesn't matter whether they are armed or not unless the bullet happens to strike the gun.

I don't think it matters whether the school was a gun free zone or not. The students, being minors wouldn't have been able to carry guns. I second the idea that it still wouldn't make any difference in that this was a stray bullet. I don't agree with the title of the article, that the kid was shot. Yes it appears he was struck by a bullet, but that doesn't meet my definition of being shot. Freak accident yes. Was someone negligent in the discharge of a firearm, probably. But this was plain and simple a random accident and had nothing to do with gun free zones or schools for that matter. That is just where the bullet landed from the information provided.

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Hey, they've gotta come down somewhere. If you pull the trigger with the muzzle pointed more than a few degrees over the horizon, any bullet will go quite a ways, and typically have plenty of energy left to wound you when it lands. Or kill you, if it hits in just the right / wrong spot...

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